Cracks in 5 residential houses in Rainawari

Residents demands CM attention




As the development projects in the Srinagar city are going on full swing, the residents of Dalkawpora of Rainawari locality demands urgent attention of the Chief Minister (CM) as their applications in the UEED and LAWDA Departments goes in thrash.
UEED Department who have given a contract for a sewerage plant at Naidyar bridge and in the undergone course of construct, major cracks have occurred in five residential houses of Mohammad Shafi Ahangar, Farooq Ahmad Ahangar, Mohammad Hanief Ahangar, Farooq Ahmad Sofi and Gulzar Ahmad.
The residents have already informed the concern UEED and LAWDA Departments about the same but no action has been taken so far due to which the residents now wants the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s attention for the redress of their major problem.
Mohammad Shafi Ahangar , a retired government official said, “Since the beginning of the construction of the sewerage plant, cracks occurred in the ground floor of my house and immediately I informed the concern contract to stop the work, and now cracks has also occurred in the first floor.”
“In a straight way, I went to the concern departments to stop the work but no action was taken so far,” he said and added that our application have been kept in files for ten days in the department.
Farooq Ahmad Ahangar, a government employee of the CAPD Department said that the contract Abdul Rashid Dar started work of the sewerage plant at the bridge side without ascertaining its affects to the nearby residential houses and no civil engineer of the contractor as well as from the department has visited the site to see the work.
Mohammad Hanief, another resident blaming the UEED Department said, “The department should first check all the outcomes of the execution of the work and a civil engineer should be made obligatory to every contract that is given such kind of jobs, so that life and property of the residents will be saved.”
He said, “Our life has become miserable to all our family members including the children by the cracks occurred in our houses due to the sewerage plant by every day and night .”
While making a request to the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Hanief said that the CM by the medium of this newspaper should give a personal approach towards our problem so that our lives and property will be saved.